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Redesigning the US Mental Health Care System

June 12, 2025 01:11 PM
Redesigning the US Mental Health Care System brings together an array of experts working to spark lasting change in mental health care systems across the United States. It creates a vision of a unified continuum of care designed to serve people at the right time and in the right place.

June 2025

Psychology of Mental Health

June 12, 2025 01:01 PM
Psychology of Mental Health will place our current understanding of mental health in context, both historically and culturally. It will discuss various models for understanding mental health, research on causes of mental health problems, and will introduce recent psychology-led alternatives to diagnosis.

June 2025

Health and Safety Information for Teen Travelers

June 12, 2025 12:53 PM
Provides basic health and safety information for teen travelers, covering various types of travel, modes of transportation, accommodation options, common travel illnesses, preparation tips, and safety measures during travel and at destinations.

June 2025

Conditioning for Strength and Human Performance

June 12, 2025 12:46 PM
This book updates the reader with new developments in the field and focuses on the information a strength and conditioning coach needs to be informed and successful.

June 2025

Adolescent Health & Wellness

June 12, 2025 12:40 PM
This title is designed to address three major areas that typically affect adolescents: physical and emotional issues; non-health topics with tremendous potential impact, like safe sex, paying for college, bullying, and leadership; and socially relevant issues, like shopping locally and recycling.

June 2025

Health Behavior: Theory, Research, and Practice

June 12, 2025 12:36 PM
Health Behavior: Theory, Research and Practice provides a thorough introduction to understanding and changing health behavior--important facets of the public health role.

June 2025

Foreign Bodies: Pandemics, Vaccines, and the Health of Nations

June 12, 2025 12:32 PM
A vibrant cultural history investigating pandemics and vaccines, by bestselling author and historian Simon Schama.

June 2025

Perceptions of a Pandemic : A Cross-Continental Comparison of Citizen Perceptions, Attitudes, and Behaviors During Covid-19

June 11, 2025 04:42 PM
While responses to the Covid-19 pandemic varied based on the timing of the onset of cases and the severity of the disease, Perceptions of a Pandemic analyzes and compares the perceptions and attitudes of citizens in the US and Finland during the pandemic's early stages and relates these to health and wellbeing outcomes after the pandemic ended.

Published June 2025

Planning for the Wrong Pandemic: Covid-19 and the Limits of Expert Knowledge

June 11, 2025 04:41 PM
The fractious and disorganized governmental response to the coronavirus pandemic in the United States prompted many observers to ask: why was the country--which had the knowledge, resources, and plans to deal with such an event--caught so unprepared? Critics pointed to a number of candidates for blame: a President who was dismissive of scientific expertise and indifferent to the task of leading government response; a fragmented media landscape that enabled misinformation to prosper; a slow-footed health bureaucracy incapable of flexible response; and social disparities that heightened inequities in the impact of disease.

Published June 2025

Handbook of inequality and COVID-19

June 11, 2025 04:35 PM
In this comprehensive Handbook, Kenneth Couch brings together expert contributors to provide insights into the impact of COVID-19 on new and pre-existing inequalities in health, work, and education. While sharper impacts on pre-existing cross-group disparities were often resolved by vaccinations and the lifting of restrictions, this important work indicates that in many respects disadvantaged groups will endure lasting negative effects from the pandemic.

Published June 2025

Mike Goates

Life & Geological Sciences Librarian
michael_goates@byu.edu